Delvine Relin Meringor, the athlete who represented Romania at the Paris Olympics, suspended for 3 years for doping!
Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Saturday, June 21, 2025 22:43 / Updated Sunday, June 22, 2025 02:54
Delvine Relin Meringor, 32, a Kenyan Marathonist who represented Romania at the Paris Olympics, was suspended for 3 years, between January 2025 – January 2028, for violating the anti -doping regulation. The facts date from 2022 and the decision of the suspension was communicated by the Anti -Doping Agency in Kenya in the end of March 2025.
Naturalized to represent Romania at the Summer Olympics of 2024, Delvine Relin Meringor has achieved an honorable result in Paris7th place in the female marathon. He was hot, he told the GSP reporter on the spot that “I want to be in Los Angeles over four years.”
The plans were given over his head of what happened in the months since then. Finding guilty of violating the anti-doping regulation, Delvine was suspended until January 2028, which means it can take goodbye from the next edition of the Summer Olympics.
But what happened?
On October 7, 2022the distance runner was taken a blood test for biological passport, a data set through which the International Anti -Doping Agency is looking for “to monitor over time certain biological variables that indirectly reveal the effects of dopinginstead of trying to detect the substance or doping method. ”Based on the biological passport, Simona Halep was accused in her famous doping case.
On July 22, July 31, August 8 and 19, 2023, the athlete from Kenya, legitimized at Steaua București, offered other blood samples. Experts later judged that “one or more of the tests offered have presented an adverse analytical result indicating the presence of a prohibited substance or method”.
Delvine Relin Meringor, the athlete who represented Romania at the Paris Olympic Games, was suspended for 3 years
Delvine Relin Meringor was thus found guilty of violating the anti -doping regulation. Specifically, “the use or attempt to use a prohibited substance or method”.
According to the Anti -Doping Agency in Kenya, the athlete “acknowledged the regulation's violation by signing the related document”. Her statement is dated January 10, 2025, 5 months after ranked 7th in the female marathon in Paris!
The athlete tried to come up with an explanation – the documents do not reveal what it is – but failed to provide the experts “a satisfactory or mitigating evidence”. Remaining without options, “she acknowledged that the results found in the tests in her biological passport, collected in the data mentioned above, are a violation of the anti -doping regulation.”
As the athlete accepted the accusation and acknowledged the facts “no later than 20 days after it was notified”, it was Suspended 3 years (January 11, 2025 – 10 January 2028).
In addition, all its competitive results obtained from the moment of the first evidence (October 7, 2022) until January 2025 were canceled. The medals, points and prizes related to those results were declared void!
